Excessive Use of Force: Diagnosing Our Over-Policing Problem

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The media may have moved on from its wall-to-wall coverage of the killing of Tyre Nichols, but the nation is still hurting. This week, we’re discussing how incorrectly diagnosing the problem of police brutality has led to a system that hurts everyone. We’re joined by Heather McGhee, author and chair of the racial justice organization Color of Change, and Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, CEO of Center for Policing Equity. They share their thoughts on why armed cops shouldn’t be doing minor traffic stops, how the system changes a cop from the inside out, and how investing in human infrastructure is our best solution to the ongoing problem of police brutality. Also, writers Rob Christensen and Kasaun Wilson weigh in on the sensationalization of the body cam footage and their own run-ins with the law.

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CREDITS Hosted by: Jon Stewart

Featuring, in order of appearance: Heather McGhee, Phillip Atiba Goff, Kasaun Wilson, Rob Christensen

Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler

Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson

Producers: Zach Goldbaum, Caity Gray

Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos

Editor: Zach Silberberg

Editor & Sound Engineer: Miguel Carrascal

Senior Digital Producer: Freddie Morgan

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Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek

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Senior Research Producer: Susan Helvenston

Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.

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0:00.0	And what about now? Are you guys still here? I think we may. I don't hear anything.
0:03.8	Oh, the metaphor for the conversation of race in America.
0:08.5	Are we recording this? I'm just trying to say.
0:11.6	All right. All right. So now can we jump on the Jewish thing to now? Is that?
0:25.8	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. It's the problem with John Stewart. I am John Stewart.
0:44.8	And it's going to be, fuck man. It's going to be one of those shows. By the way, we're on Apple
0:50.0	TV plus if you want to watch. That was just like, keep forgetting. They keep telling me you got
0:56.8	to keep promoting the show. And I'm always like, Oh, but, but aren't we just by being us?
1:01.6	Aren't we that? But obviously this was a weekend of trying to distract yourself from the terrible
1:09.7	video and the murder of Tyreneuckles in Memphis. And to get into that, we are going to have Heather
1:15.8	McGee, who's the author of this, some of us with racism, cause everyone to have a conprosper together.
1:20.2	And Dr. Philip, a Tiva Gop and really looking forward to them giving us an opportunity to kind of
1:26.4	get some perspective on all this shit. And we've got Kase on Wilson and Rob Christian Center
1:31.3	going to be joining us as well to try and help distract. Did you distract yourselves this weekend?
1:36.8	Did you have a good weekend? What happened? Yeah. Just avoiding watching any videos we don't want
1:42.4	to watch any internet. That's what I'm talking about. Okay. I'm good. This is the first time I was
1:47.7	like, I'm not watching it. I'm just not doing it. I can't. It's one of those things too. I think that
1:54.9	it's just always in back of mind. When you know when something like that gets seared into
1:59.7	consciousness and you think like, Oh, no, I'm supposed to steer into this. But I feel like I'm not
2:05.2	emotionally equipped to steer into it. And I guess that's the point is to feel
2:09.3	to feel the pain, I guess, is that the point or is it to take action? I don't fucking know.
2:17.8	I honestly don't fucking know. Yeah. It's like, what do you do at this point? How many videos,
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